"There's never been a time where immigration detention hasn't been deadly, so it's just inevitable that the more people we ...

As pediatricians, we know detention harms a child's physical and mental health, from stress to damage in brain development. Trump must end it. Approval rating sinks Stop mocking me Get the latest ...

Save the Children said detention before deportation can cause problems like depression and eating disorders, and harm educational chances. It has urged ministers to rethink the policy of using one of ...

Child Detention Center Worker Arrested for Child Porn U.S. Suspected pedophile went on to have key role at Texas shelter working with unaccompanied migrant children.

Doug Mills-Pool/Getty ImagesUntreated broken bones. Foodborne illnesses from undercooked meals. Outdoor activity limited to the hottest hours of the day, when temperatures regularly hit triple ...

Labour's Lord Dubs said there were "workable alternatives" to detention. The Home Office has said detention is used sparingly, especially when children are involved. A report earlier this year for the ...

State regulators have revoked and downgraded the license of Philadelphia’s Department of Human Services, accusing the agency of accessing a confidential child-abuse database to spy on its ...

A private security officer at an immigrant detention center in Texas was criminally charged last week with choking a handcuffed detainee, who was later transported to the facility’s medical unit.

The Berks Family Residential Center in Pennsylvania is the only other immigrant family detention facility in the country. In late January, the state refused to renew , and then revoked, that ...

In the U.S., many kids in trouble with the law are sentenced to juvenile detention facilities. In New Hampshire, the largest such facility is a place commonly known as the Youth Detention Center ...

Hundreds of survivors of child sexual abuse at juvenile detention centers rallied Wednesday for justice.A child in 2012, Elexis Massey said she was sent to a state facility, where she was ...